Lim decides the future of Gracia

Confidence in Javi Gracia is running out at Valencia. After the draw against Cádiz, which was the team that deserved the victory in Mestalla, the continuity of the Navarrese coach has been called into question. In Valencia, the decision made in Singapore by Peter Lim is pending, with voices within the club who doubt the permanence on the bench of Gracia, who has added nine games without achieving victory and has Valencia with 16 points, the same as Elche, a team that closes the relegation zone, although the people of Elche with two fewer parties.

The speech that was given in recent weeks from the black and white dome was reinforcing the figure of Gracia. Anil Murthy told him this in the first person two weeks ago at a meeting in Paterna. Even then he was told that reinforcements would arrive in the winter market, a pending issue in the summer. They wanted to make Gracia a participant in it and it was understood that there was a moral debt with the coach to reinforce a squad that in summer was undone. But Gracia, in the press room, quarantined this intention and now what must be quarantined is its continuity.

Valencia is considering other options on the bench because the situation is worrying and the Navarrese cannot find solutions among what he has at his disposal. The calendar presents two crucial games for Valencia in terms of classification (Real Valladolid and Osasuna) and the leadership doubts if they will get ahead with Gracia, a coach who in October made his position available to the club and if he did not leave it is because Valencia was not accepted and claimed three million euros in the event of termination. Since then, Gracia's involvement has been with the wardrobe but not with the project and the results have deteriorated the image of a burning nail of Valencianism that she had after her arrival in summer.